Longmont authorities investigating meth lab on Grandview Meadows

Disturbance between siblings brought police to scene Tuesday

Longmont police and the fire department's hazardous materials team investigate a possible methamphetamine lab Tuesday in an apartment on the 700 block of Grandview Meadows Drive.
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Greg Lindstrom
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LONGMONT -- Authorities worked into the night on Tuesday to remove chemicals and other items from a suspected meth lab in a unit of the Grandview Meadows Apartments on the 700 block of Grandview Meadows Drive.

Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said that earlier in the day, officers were dispatched to the apartment to investigate a reported disturbance between a 14-year-old boy and his young adult sister.

After officers got to the apartment in the complex's Building M, they found chemicals known to be used in manufacturing methamphetamine, Satur said.

No one had been arrested as of Tuesday evening, Satur said, but he said police did have a suspect in the alleged drug-making operation.

Longmont police and firefighters and the city's hazardous materials response team were summoned to the scene to investigate further, check out the apartment and remove the suspected drug components and other possible evidence, a process that Satur said at 7:30 p.m. was likely to take several more hours.

The Lafayette Fire Department's hazardous materials truck and a crew from that department also showed up to assist.

Satur said authorities did not have to evacuate the entire building. He said some apartments were unoccupied and that others, including some that were a long enough distance away from the apartment in question, were adequately ventilated and the people in them just told to stay inside.

At least a couple of people living in the building, however, said they were told to leave their apartments or that they couldn't get in once the officers and hazmat team had gone to work.

One woman who lives in another of the complex's buildings said the management explicitly prohibits tenants from even smoking marijuana inside their apartments, even if they're registered medical-marijuana patients.

No further information was immediately available about the fight or domestic disturbance that prompted the initial police response, Satur said.